"mega data mega kaka" --A digital documentary of social, political, and cultural events. Commentary in the form of irony, lampoon, and diatribe.
"If it's not just people themselves, but their fathers and grandfathers and pretty well all past generations that have been led astray, it's not easy to root out their mistaken opinions today, however strong one's arguments" - Seneca

The Haggard latest ... And I thought I'd get through this without linking to anything that has to do with this stupid story. But then I see Crunchy's got one of the best analyses I've seen on Haggard's boy-toy fetish. Yes, Ted's a creep, but his wife's frigid... The logic here is jaw dropping; even assuming that Mrs. Haggard is withholding her favors, Ted's preference tells me that it's not her frigidity that's the issue (if there IS an issue) but his proclivity. The guy likes men--maybe bi- or homo-sexually, whatever, you can't pin the problem for his issues onto Mrs. Haggard, whose will to stand beside and defend Ted earns my respect.

Islamism's failure, Islamists' future Roy has written intelligently about threats, trends, and scenarios of the Islamist project for over a decade. His remarks on the Islamists' dilemma shows that they do indeed adapt to historical circumstance, contrary to many of the Islamophobic paranoiac revelations.

Presidential IQ Adams, Jefferson, Kennedy, Clinton--all very smart guys. But you really want to know where GW is on the list, don't you?

God's War: A New History of the Crusades A new history of the Crusades is welcome indeed, especially when you have Islamophobes out there passing along revisionist versions of the crusades that strangely resemble the so-called war on terror. Of course, the details of history always belie cliches and stereotypes. This is not your father's Crusades nor the liberal or Xtian version either.

The Misunderstood Jew That Jesus was a Jew is a no-brainer. The question in many historical-critical circles is whether he was talking for only Jews or for something else, whatever that might be. This book argues for the former; the reviewer frames it in terms of the latter.